Kash Patel Is The Hero QAnon Has Been Waiting For

And contrary to popular belief that QAnon followers are mostly older people who spend more time on conspiracy websites, PRRI data shows that 22 percent of those under the age of 50 believe in QAnon’s conspiracy theories, compared to 14 only a percentage of the elderly. at 65.

“I have no doubt that conspiracy theories like QAnon will end soon,” Melissa Deckman, CEO of PRRI, tells WIRED. “Trump’s supporters are already willing to support conspiracies that are not based on a higher level than ordinary people. Combined with the deep distrust of the government and various other institutions among the majority of the American people, the conditions that allow such theories to grow even more, unfortunately, will not come. anywhere soon.”

Trump’s return to the White House has been widely celebrated by the QAnon group, members of which believe that the wild predictions made by Q in their thousands of posts have now come true.

“The general consensus is that Trump has broken the Deep State and that all the bad guys are going to jail ASAP, that we will go back to the gold standard and the Fed will be destroyed,” said Mike Rains, an analyst. he follows the QAnon group, he tells WIRED. “Ukrainian biolabs will be exposed as the source of Covid by (Anthony) Fauci and the entire company will be sentenced to death for crimes against humanity.”

This can be seen on Telegram and platforms like Gab and Truth Social, where QAnon influencers were hunted for the removal of QAnon accounts from many platforms in 2021 following the Capitol attack.

But it can also be seen on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and, in particular, X, which has been around for a long time. after centibillionaire Elon Musk took overit provided a good foundation for the scheme to succeed, in addition to providing money to influencers who could make their dirty money.

Meta, TikTok, and X did not respond to QAnon-related comments on their platforms.

“It doesn’t help that under Musk, QAnon’s unproven conspiracy theories have multiplied on X, giving them a wider audience and a more legitimate look,” says Cook.

Among those who started the so-called Twitter movement after the January 6 attack on the Capitol was Trump. When forced to post on his small Truth Social platform, he quickly embraced QAnon wholeheartedly, boosting QAnon-affiliated accounts nearly 1,000 times, according to October analysis by Media Matters.